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Etymologies

Examples

Comparing, say, two demographically matched young college-educated liberal women or comparing two demographically matched older less educated conservative men, the one who seldom attends church is likely to be more supportive of the civil liberties of racists, militarists, and so forth than is her more religiously observant counterpart.

But it is more striking that the same pattern—secular people more tolerant—recurs on questions about racists and militarists, who are probably more disliked by secular people than by religious people and who therefore pose tougher tests for those who are secular.

When they had exhausted their energy for idealism and cared only to entrench themselves as a permanent governing class, the protean Stefani pulled up stakes for Los Angeles, where she suddenly and improbably reinvented herself as a tribune of the poor and progressive, and a scourge of conservatives, militarists, and corporations who savaged the environment, starved children, and slaughtered the innocent.

Considering that part of the aim of Israeli militarists to undercut any chance of negotiated settlement, I think that the current bombing fix will do very well in setting up the conditions for further Palestinian disorder.